(1652-1730). BORN, in 1652, in New Amsterdam.
IMMIGRATED: in 1677, as a free adult from New
York. RESIDED: in St. Mary's County ca. 1678;
Dorchester County, by 1683. FAMILY BACK-
GROUND. FATHER: Govert Lookerman (?-1671),
who was born in Turnhout, the Netherlands, and
immigrated to New Amsterdam in 1633. He was
chief merchant and Indian trader of New Neth-
erlands, often in partnership with Isaac Allerton,
Pilgrim father; member of elected board of Nine
Selectmen of New Netherlands in the 1640s; owned
a packet boat, The City of Amsterdam. He mar-
ried first, Ariaentje Jans. MOTHER: Marritje. widow
of Thymen Janzen, daughter of Tryn Jansen. HALF
SISTERS: Marritje (1641-?); Jannetie (1643-?).
MARRIED first, Elinor, probably the daughter of
Nicholas Keiting (Ketin) of St. Mary's County.
MARRIED second, Dorothy. CHILDREN. SONS: Ja-
cob (1678-1731), sheriff of Dorchester County
in 1730, who married Magdalen (1679-1739),
widow of James Edmondson (1670-1702),
daughter of John Stevens (?-1692); Govert Look-
erman (ca. 1681-1728); John (1686-1760), who
married first, Mabel Dawson, and second, Mary;
Thomas (?-ca. 1714), who probably died at sea;
Nicholas (1697-1771), who married Sally Emer-
son; and Thomas, who married first, Vienna, and

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